Please excuse the random us of CAPS, thats how its written on the box.
If you ever see one DVD about the life & times of Jimi Hendrix - and I'm sure you've all seen a few - this is the on.
Made in 1973 its much closer to his death & isn't full of his contemporaries (SRV etc...) saying (ass-kissing) how amazing he was.
The only actually "guitarists" who talk in lengths about him are Eric Clapton & Pete Townsend - both looking painfully young & being painfully honest!!
Its just a great documentary. Its got loads of extra live footage on a second DVD but for me its just great listening to them all talk about him as a person - bare bones and all.
There are echoes of Kurt Cobain - not as a comparable guitarist but as someone bewildered & kinda bemused by stardom.
His Dad is in there too, as is Little Richard (looking cosmic). There's Buddy Miles & Billy Cox (I love you Band Of Gypsy's). Mick Jagger, Germaine Greer and few other too.
Check it out..... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070242/
"A film about JIMI HENDRIX".....
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Had that video for about seven years now, had to buy the DVD recently because I'm postive I wore the VHS out.
I'd had the Band of Gypsys album for a long time (incidentally my absolute favourite Hendrix album, if not my favourite album ever), and I was utterly mesmerised by the shot of Jimi in the Band of Gyspys playing Machine Gun, Dec 31st, '69. It's at about 4 minutes into the track when he bends the shit out of that one note and holds it for what feels like forever.... used to stop and rewind that bit over and over again
There's also that other bit of live footage which I think is at Monterey, but I can't be sure, when it cuts from the '67 black and white performance of Purple Haze into a colour version a year or two later, and the solo in this version is the reason I started playing electric guitar.
I'd had the Band of Gypsys album for a long time (incidentally my absolute favourite Hendrix album, if not my favourite album ever), and I was utterly mesmerised by the shot of Jimi in the Band of Gyspys playing Machine Gun, Dec 31st, '69. It's at about 4 minutes into the track when he bends the shit out of that one note and holds it for what feels like forever.... used to stop and rewind that bit over and over again
There's also that other bit of live footage which I think is at Monterey, but I can't be sure, when it cuts from the '67 black and white performance of Purple Haze into a colour version a year or two later, and the solo in this version is the reason I started playing electric guitar.
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I picked up the DVD when Rhino reissued it...Rhino is so cool
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I thank Rhino for a lot of the old 60's Psych I now know & love.glimmertwin wrote: I picked up the DVD when Rhino reissued it...Rhino is so cool :D
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